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I feel that this would be a great help for many students and teachers.  I know that we all need to know how to research different topics and put things together, however using a content curation could be a great spring board to teach students just how to find relatable articles and put them together.

This is  great and will help many people when searching for a specific topic. It is very frustrating when you search for something and results pop up that have nothing to do with what you are looking for. 

I absolutely love this idea and totally agree! Students need to have meaningful discussions and classwork instead of busy work for homework and listening to the teacher lecture.  Even though I did not come from this type of classroom, and I still learned everything I needed to, I feel that at a younger age I would have valued my education a lot more and put 110% into school instead of only about 80%.

I like to look at the flipped classroom as merely recreating how classrooms worked in the past. Before computers, books were the source of information for students. When books were the "high tech" way to gather information, students would read their assignments as homework, then come into class and have their learning reinforced. When books became low tech, young people lost interest in the static information they contained and many stopped reading their assignments as they should. Teachers then adapted by adding more lecturing and using computers in the classroom to capture the students interest. We have merely moved forward in time to where that "high tech" learning device was once again available at home and we are reverting back to old educational methods.

I feel that this type of educational method is focusing more on the social aspect of school rather than content, but I do understand that peers learn from one another. I think ultimately it would be a good way to teacher in elementary school classrooms. Visual aids are very beneficial and everything the student does is linked to something else that does not waste their time. This approach is more student centered. In the end the teacher can only present so much information.

I find this model very interesting! I think it would work for some students, but not for all. Students who need more time during lessons to take notes, or students who need more time to read the material would benefit greatly from the flipped classroom. I enjoy this idea because it gives the classroom a whole new feel, and i think some students would enjoy the change.

This is a great model for students with mild learning disabilities. They have the opportunity to watch lectures online at their own pace, and apply the information they learned from the online lectures in class. 

Too many times teachers use games as a way for a reward when the class is good or they need to do work without the students being too much of a bother.  And even though these games are educational, the students are not gaining enough knowledge from them.  Games should be fun, but they also need to have a strong educational foundation in which the students interact with each other, learn from each other, and learn from themselves.

In some ways this is a very scary. As the store of the worlds information increases there will be private individuals and/or organizations that filter who may view what. Perhaps all information will still be available, but most people will take the easy way out and only read what a curator decides to share.

This reminds me of how people can change or expand content on Wikipedia. I have often seen inaccurate information posted on wikipedia, so it makes me wonder how accurate the information the curators select will be as well.

All students learn differently.  So just like a traditional classroom, online learning courses need to differentiate their curriculum and lessons jus the same.  Not one child or education will fit in the same mold twice.

In addition to meeting the needs of different learning styles, mLearning is available in many more locations and is more immediate.

I think the reason that there are so many different ways to deliver courses is because different ways work better for different material or even different students, not because one is better.

I agree with this statement. Every student learns differently, just like every teacher teaches with different methods. The type of learning that a student engages in is whatever works for them.

I think the reason that there are so many different ways to deliver courses is because different ways work better for different material or even different students, not because one is better.

Again, for me it is really all about the equal access for every student.  As of now, and for a while, I feel that only the more priviliged students will be able to afford and have access to certain online applications and mobile devices.

Of course we use them differently. We have access to them in places where we never had access to "larger" computer technology.

I agree Warren, we can take these devices on the go much easier than larger computers because they can fit in our pockets or bags easily, and they are not cumbersome to lug around. There are also different capabilities for these devices, and faster programs for accessing them.

I also agree. The only thing that I do not do on my mobile device is type papers. But, tablets have apps that allow people to write papers and do basically everything that a laptop or larger computer can do. 

We should embrace the differences in the uses of technologies and use them both to aid teaching in the way an individual student learns best.

People born after the rise of personal computers had their brains develop slightly differently and therefore are much better at multitasking and require more immediate information.

I agree with this. There are many assignments that are just too large and not appropriate for a mobile device. The example they gave about looking up the calories quick is a great example of how mobile devices can be used! They make looking up something so simple!